Flight by machines heavier than air is unpractical and insignificant, if not utterly impossible.

  • -- Simon Newcomb 西蒙·纽科姆

用比空气还重的机器飞行是不切实际的,即使不是完全不可能的,也是微不足道的。

相关名言

Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.

人类制造的机器,如果我们给它们提供一个非常特殊的环境,它们就能正常工作。但是如果环境发生了变化,它们就完全不能工作了。

Our bodies are machines and have to be functional, and to do that they have to be fed properly.

我们的身体是机器,必须有功能,要做到这一点,它们必须得到适当的喂养。